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  1. Large-scale head-to-head comparison of on- and off-target profiles of [18F]Tauvid and [18F]MK6240 tau-PET in aging and Alzheimer’s disease 2026-11-01
  2. Detection of tau spatial extent using MK6240 and flortaucipir PET 2026-10-28
  3. Soluble amyloid composition links proximal APP processing, fibrillar burden and the p-tau181 response 2026-10-22

Studies

319 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1995 to 2026

Top journals

  • Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 37
  • Alzheimer's research & therapy 21
  • Brain : a journal of neurology 18
  • Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 17
  • Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 15

105 journals in all.

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  1. Tau Positron-Emission Tomography in Former National Football League Players

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. The New England journal of medicine 2019-04-10 Biomarkers

    A group of living former NFL players with cognitive and neuropsychiatric symptoms had higher tau levels measured by PET than controls in brain regions that are affected by CTE and did not have elevated amyloid-beta levels.

  2. Optimized dual-time-window protocols for quantitative [18F]flutemetamol and [18F]florbetaben PET studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. EJNMMI research 2019-03-27 Brain scans and imaging

    [18F]Flutemetamol and [18F]florbetaben data demonstrated an increased bias in amyloid estimate for larger intervals and higher noise levels.

  3. Centiloid cut-off values for optimal agreement between PET and CSF core AD biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2019-03-21 Brain scans and imaging

    All Centiloid cut-offs fell within the range of 25-35, except for CSF Aβ42 that rendered an optimal cut-off value of 12 CL.

  4. Amyloid PET and cognitive decline in cognitively normal individuals: the SCIENCe project

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2019-03-08 Brain scans and imaging

    We examined the relationships between amyloid-β PET and concurrent and longitudinal cognitive performance in 107 cognitively normal individuals with subjective cognitive decline (age: 64 ± 8 years, 44% female, Mini-Mental State Examination score 29 ± 1).

  5. CSF biomarkers and amyloid PET: concordance and diagnostic accuracy in a MCI cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Acta neurologica Belgica 2019-03-07 Brain scans and imaging

    Brain amyloid deposition is one of the main hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and two approaches are available for assessing amyloid pathology in vivo: cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers levels and amyloid load visualized by amyloid beta positron emission tomography imaging (Amy-PET) probes.

  6. Comparison between amyloid-PET and CSF amyloid-β biomarkers in a clinical cohort with memory deficits

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Clinica chimica acta; international journal of clinical chemistry 2019-02-05 Tau biomarkers

    With increasing prevalence of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and advances in research of therapeutic approaches, an early and accurate in-vivo diagnosis is crucial.

  7. 18F-Florbetaben PET/CT to Assess Alzheimer's Disease: A new Analysis Method for Regional Amyloid Quantification

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of neuroimaging : official journal of the American Society of Neuroimaging 2019-02-03 Brain scans and imaging

    Forty-four consecutive patients with clinical evidence of dementia, were retrospectively evaluated.

  8. The impact of amyloid-beta and tau on prospective cognitive decline in older individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2019-01-21 Brain scans and imaging

    Our results are consistent with the supposition that both Aβ and tau are necessary for memory decline in the preclinical stages of AD.

  9. Entorhinal cortex tau, amyloid-β, cortical thickness and memory performance in non-demented subjects

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Brain 2019-01-20 Brain scans and imaging

    As more biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease and age-related brain conditions become available, more sophisticated analytic approaches are needed to take full advantage of the information they convey.

  10. Brain Amyloid-β Deposition and Blood Biomarkers in Patients with Clinically Diagnosed Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2019 Biomarkers

    Brain amyloid-β (Aβ) deposition is a hallmark to define Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  11. Cerebrospinal Fluid Amyloid-β Subtypes in Confirmed Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration Cases: A Pilot Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2019 Biomarkers

    To investigate amyloid-β (Aβ) in frontotemporal dementia (FTD), cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) Aβ38, Aβ40, and Aβ42 in frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD; N = 18 genetically and/or pathologically confirmed and N = 8 FTD with concomitant amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) were compared with Alzheimer's disease (AD; pathological or Pittsburgh-compound-B Positron-emission-tomography (PIB-PET) positive; N = 25) and controls (N = 24).

  12. Tau PET Distributional Pattern in AD Patients with Visuospatial Dysfunction

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Current Alzheimer research 2019 Brain scans and imaging

    These findings suggested that occipitoparietal cortex, posterior cingulate cortex and precuneus, which were particularly affected by increased tau accumulation in VS-AD patients, may associate with visuospatial dysfunction of AD.

  13. Ultrasensitive Detection of Plasma Amyloid-β as a Biomarker for Cognitively Normal Elderly Individuals at Risk of Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2019-01-01 Biomarkers

    Plasma Aβ ratios in this study are a potential biomarker for brain Aβ deposition and therefore, for preclinical AD.

  14. Use of amyloid PET/CT with 18F-Florbetaben in the management of patients with Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Hellenic journal of nuclear medicine 2019 Brain scans and imaging

    Twenty-five/38 (65.8%) amyloid PET/CT scans resulted positive for amyloid deposition.

  15. Parametric methods for [18F]flortaucipir PET

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism 2018-12-20 Brain scans and imaging

    [18F]Flortaucipir is a PET tau tracer used to visualize tau binding in Alzheimer's disease (AD) in vivo.

  16. Regional tau pathology and loneliness in cognitively normal older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Translational psychiatry 2018-12-18 Risk factors

    Loneliness is a perception of social and emotional isolation that increases in prevalence among older adults during the eighth decade of life.

  17. Centiloid scaling for quantification of brain amyloid with [ 18 F]flutemetamol using multiple processing methods

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. EJNMMI research 2018-12-05 Treatments

    [ 18 F]flutemetamol data can now be expressed in Centiloid units, enhancing its utility in clinical and research applications for β-amyloid imaging.

  18. Tau Accumulation in Clinically Normal Older Adults Is Associated with Hippocampal Hyperactivity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2018-11-27 Brain scans and imaging

    Animal studies demonstrate that hyperactive neurons facilitate early accumulation and spread of tau and amyloid-β proteins in the pathological cascade of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  19. Secondary prevention of Alzheimer's dementia: neuroimaging contributions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2018-10-30 Treatments

    MRI can also be used to assess comorbid vascular pathology and define homogeneous groups for inclusion or for subject stratification.

  20. Detection of tau in Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker disease (PRNP F198S) by [18F]Flortaucipir PET

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Acta neuropathologica communications 2018-10-29 Brain scans and imaging

    This study aimed to determine the pattern of [18F]flortaucipir uptake in individuals affected by Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker disease (GSS) associated with the PRNP F198S mutation.

  21. AMYPAD Diagnostic and Patient Management Study: Rationale and design

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2018-10-16 Brain scans and imaging

    Reimbursement of amyloid-positron emission tomography (PET) is lagging due to the lack of definitive evidence on its clinical utility and cost-effectiveness.

  22. Implementing the centiloid transformation for 11C-PiB and β-amyloid 18F-PET tracers using CapAIBL

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. NeuroImage 2018-08-18 Brain scans and imaging

    Using the calibration images, there was a very strong agreement, and very little bias between the centiloid values computed using CapAIBL and those computed using the standard method with R2 > 0.97 across all tracers.

  23. In vivo quantification of neurofibrillary tangles with [ 18 F]MK-6240

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2018-07-31 Brain scans and imaging

    This evaluation shows an [ 18 F]MK-6240 distribution in concordance with postmortem studies and that simplified quantitative approaches such as the SUVR offer valid estimates of neurofibrillary tangle load 90 min post injection. [ 18 F]MK-6240 is a promising tau tracer with the potential to be applied in the disease diagnosis and assessment of therapeutic interventions.

  24. Beta-amyloid imaging in dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Yeungnam University journal of medicine 2018-06-30 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder associated with extracellular plaques, composed of amyloid-beta (Aβ), in the brain.

  25. Clinical Research on Alzheimer's Disease: Progress and Perspectives

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Neuroscience bulletin 2018-06-28 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common type of dementia, is becoming a major challenge for global health and social care.

  26. Quantification of [18F]florbetapir: A test-retest tracer kinetic modelling study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism 2018-06-13 Brain scans and imaging

    Accumulation of amyloid beta can be visualized using [18F]florbetapir positron emission tomography.

  27. Brain Imaging of Alzheimer Dementia Patients and Elderly Controls with 18F-MK-6240, a PET Tracer Targeting Neurofibrillary Tangles

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Journal of Nuclear Medicine 2018-06-07 Brain scans and imaging

    18F-MK-6240 (18F-labeled 6-(fluoro)-3-(1H-pyrrolo[2,3-c]pyridin-1-yl)isoquinolin-5-amine) is a highly selective, subnanomolar-affinity PET tracer for imaging neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs).

  28. Amyloid pathology fingerprint differentiates post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. NeuroImage. Clinical 2018-06-05 Tau biomarkers

    Compared to controls, all three clinical groups showed a pattern of mainly increased referenced standard uptake values (SUVR) for the amyloid tracer [18F]-AV45 PET, with rank order PTSD > TBI_PTSD > TBI > Control, and same rank order was seen in the deficits of cognitive functions.

  29. Longitudinal tau PET in ageing and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2018-05-01 Brain scans and imaging

    At a group-wise level, observable rates of short-term serial tau accumulation were only seen in the presence of abnormal amyloid.

  30. Subthreshold Amyloid Predicts Tau Deposition in Aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2018-04-23 Treatments

    Current approaches to the early detection of Alzheimer's disease (AD) rely upon classifying individuals as "positive" or "negative" for biomarkers related to the core pathology of β-amyloid (Aβ).

  31. Amyloid PET Positivity in Different Primary Progressive Aphasia Phenotypes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Clinical nuclear medicine 2018-04 Brain scans and imaging

    Among the 12 patients with PPA syndrome, 8 (66.7%) were considered as amyloid positive.

  32. FDG-PET in tau-negative amnestic dementia resembles that of autopsy-proven hippocampal sclerosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2018-04-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Age-related hippocampal sclerosis may account for a significant proportion of elderly participants with amnestic dementia.

  33. Cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers measured by Elecsys assays compared to amyloid imaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2018-03-02 Biomarkers

    CSF biomarkers and amyloid positron emission tomography reflect different aspects of Alzheimer's disease brain pathology, and therefore, less-than-perfect correspondence is expected.

  34. Topographic staging of tau positron emission tomography images

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2018-02-14 Brain scans and imaging

    All three schemes estimated stages that were significantly associated with amyloid status and when dichotomized to tau positive or negative were 90% to 94% concordant in the populations identified.

  35. Tau-PET imaging with [18F]AV-1451 in primary progressive apraxia of speech

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior 2018-01-02 Brain scans and imaging

    Apraxia of speech is a motor speech disorder characterized by combinations of slow speaking rate, abnormal prosody, distorted sound substitutions, and trial-and-error articulatory movements.

  36. 18F-Flortaucipir Binding in Choroid Plexus: Related to Race and Hippocampus Signal

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2018 Brain scans and imaging

    B/AA individuals had elevated CP and HC SUVR (p < 0.007), whereas other ROI SUVR and HC SUVR covaried for CP SUVR did not show race differences (p > 0.05).

  37. Amyloid Accumulation and Cognitive Decline in Clinically Normal Older Individuals: Implications for Aging and Early Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2018-01-01 Brain scans and imaging

    The aberrant accumulation of the amyloid protein is a critical and early event in the Alzheimer's disease (AD) cascade.

  38. Amyloid PET Imaging: Standardization and Integration with Other Alzheimer's Disease Biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) 2018 Brain scans and imaging

    Amyloid plaques are a neuropathologic hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD), which can be imaged through positron emission tomography (PET) technology using radiopharmaceuticals that selectively bind to the fibrillar aggregates of amyloid-β plaques (Amy-PET).

  39. Amyloid PET in neurodegenerative diseases with dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Revista espanola de medicina nuclear e imagen molecular 2018 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative condition characterized by progressive cognitive decline and memory loss, and is the most common form of dementia.

  40. Entorhinal Tau Pathology, Episodic Memory Decline, and Neurodegeneration in Aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2017-11-30 Brain scans and imaging

    The medial temporal lobe (MTL) is an early site of tau accumulation and MTL dysfunction may underlie episodic-memory decline in aging and dementia.

  41. Centiloid method evaluation for amyloid PET of subcortical vascular dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Scientific reports 2017-11-24 Brain scans and imaging

    Reference region selection is important for proper amyloid PET analysis, especially in subcortical vascular dementia (SVaD) patients.

  42. Prognostic value of amyloid PET scan in normal pressure hydrocephalus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of neurology 2017-11-11 Brain scans and imaging

    Amyloid positron emission tomography ([18F] florbetaben (FBB) PET) can be used to determine concomitant Alzheimer's disease (AD) in idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH) patients.

  43. Low Serum Phosphorus Correlates with Cerebral Aβ Deposition in Cognitively Impaired Subjects: Results from the KBASE Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2017-11-06 Biomarkers

    Alzheimer's disease (AD), characterized by progressive cognitive decline, is the most prevalent neurodegenerative disease in the elderly.

  44. Tau PET imaging predicts cognition in atypical variants of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Human brain mapping 2017-11-06 Brain scans and imaging

    Accumulation of paired helical filament tau contributes to neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease (AD). 18 F-flortaucipir is a positron emission tomography (PET) radioligand sensitive to tau in AD, but its clinical utility will depend in part on its ability to predict cognitive symptoms in diverse dementia phenotypes associated with selective, regional uptake.

  45. Considerations and code for partial volume correcting [ 18 F]-AV-1451 tau PET data

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Data in brief 2017-10-16 Brain scans and imaging

    [ 18 F]-AV-1451 is a leading tracer used with positron emission tomography (PET) to quantify tau pathology.

  46. Flortaucipir tau PET imaging in semantic variant primary progressive aphasia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2017-10-06 Brain scans and imaging

    All seven patients showed elevated FTP uptake in the anterior temporal lobe with a leftward asymmetry that was not observed in healthy controls.

  47. The value of subtraction MRI in detection of amyloid-related imaging abnormalities with oedema or effusion in Alzheimer's patients: An interobserver study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. European radiology 2017-09-27 Treatments

    Subtraction MRI has potential as a visual aid increasing the sensitivity of ARIA-E assessment.

  48. Local and distant relationships between amyloid, tau and neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. NeuroImage. Clinical 2017-09-25 Brain scans and imaging

    The relationships between β-amyloid (Aβ), tau and neurodegeneration within Alzheimer's Disease pathogenesis are not fully understood.

  49. PET Imaging of Tau Pathology and Relationship to Amyloid, Longitudinal MRI, and Cognitive Change in Down Syndrome: Results from the Down Syndrome Biomarker Initiative (DSBI)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease 2017-09-18 Brain scans and imaging

    All amyloid negative subjects imaged were tau-negative.

  50. Plasma amyloid β 42/40 ratios as biomarkers for amyloid β cerebral deposition in cognitively normal individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2017-09-12 Biomarkers

    These findings support the use of plasma Aβ42/40 ratios as surrogate biomarkers of cortical Aβ deposition and enrichment tools, reducing the number of subjects submitted to invasive tests and, consequently, recruitment costs in clinical trials targeting cognitively normal individuals.

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